COMM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mass Media, Slow Motion, Interpersonal Communication

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Media is a generic term for all human-invented technology that extends the range, speed, or channels of communication. Electronic communication, broadcast media, media studies, or media effects. Refer to broad area of all human invented technology. Allows people to be connected between space and time. Not just modern examples, older examples like a book. Medium refers to a specific type of media such as a book, newspaper, radio, television, telephone, film, internet, video game, or email. The term mediated means an intervening agency, means, or instrument. So, the media is something between the message sender and the message receiver that connects them. A book, whoever wrote that book they may not be alive today, if you"re reading on device or pages connected you to that person who wrote it. Characteristics of mediated communication: world in which differs from most other forms of communication particularly interpersonal communication: Tv audience, things you read on the internets, thousand and millions in the audience.